Resource Bank for Podcasting Workshop
This page functions as a storage locker for anything that might be relevant to the topics we want to cover in the podcast workshop. As the workshop progresses, we will keep adding resources. We would love it if you all would make suggestions about valuable resources you yourself have run across. But for now, this document is just a dumping ground.
Storytelling (audio, especially)
- Jessica Abel (from Transom)
- The Podcast Mindset: Part 1
- The Podcast Mindset: Part 2
- Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio
Recording & Production
- Producing Podcasts (LinkedIn Learning course)
- https://airmedia.org/tools/how-mic-field-interview
- Cleanfeed specific guide by Producer Anthony Luciani
- Recording Cellular Phone Calls (Transom)
- Transom
- Podcast Junkies
- Audio production FAQ: Headphones, levels, mics and more
- Talking Shop – Radiotopia at Kickstarter
- Gathering Scene Tape While Reporting From A Closet
- Take A Walk With Your Mic
- Recording During The Coronavirus Pandemic
- Producing Podcasts (course from LInkedIn Learning)
- 10 Best Voice Recorder Apps for Android
- CleanFeed
Remote Recording
- https://airmedia.org/tools/remote-recording-tips-and-tricks
- WikiHow’s How to Record Audio on a Mobile Phone (Mar 2019) walks through using basic audio recording apps for iPhone, Android and Windows phones.
- Zencastr
Editing
- An Editor’s Fingerprints
- Sound Design: Haley Shaw
- The Audio Producer’s Guide To Loudness
- Effective Sound Effects
- Story Dissection: Dead Animal Man
- Finding the Story
Interviewing
- Interviewing For Emotions
- Getting Inside Someone Else’s Skin
- The Value Of A Sympathetic Character
- Studs Terkel (Transom)
Music
Scripting
Finding the binding/controlling/guiding Idea for a podcast/series/episode
- Eight Things I Like About 10 Things That Scare Me
- When A Good Idea For A Podcast Is A Bad Idea For A Podcast
- Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass
- Ira Glass
- Strangers
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Serial Host Sarah Koenig Says She Set Out To Report, Not Exonerate
- We need a slightly different example. This one is too long. Koenig explains how Serial took shape from an idea to a podcast.
Copysafe Materials and IP
- https://airmedia.org/tools/webinar-figuring-out-fair-use-public-domain-and-copyright
- This is a webinar I came across on Air.. Documents with lots of pictures are what we probably really want to be using of course! (I think this is behind a paywall?)
- Bound by Law – Tales from the Public Domain (Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins)
- Respecting Copyright and Fair Use
- “Copyright and Fair Use” via Common Sense Media
- “Copyright Crash Course” via University of Texas Libraries
- “Copyright Overview”” via Purdue’s University Copyright Office
- “Strategies for Fair Use” via Purdue’s Online Writing Lab
- Creative Commons
Where to Find Creative Commons Music
- Creative Commons
- Jamendo
- CCMixter
- Free Music Archive: Creative Commons
- 14 Websites To Find Free Creative Commons Music
- Guide To Finding Music For Your Videos: 15 Great Music Websites – DSLR Video Shooter
- Great resources for finding music for your films. on Vimeo
- Legal Music For Videos – Creative Commons
- 20 (More) Websites To Download Creative Commons Music For Free
- Purple Planet Music
Where to Find Creative Commons Sounds and Sound Effects
- SoundJay.com – Free Sound Effects
- Freesound.org – Freesound.org
- Download Sound Effects | SoundDogs.com
- Free Sound Effects | SoundBible.com
- SoundCloud | What is Creative Commons?
- Download Free Sound Effects
- 55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects
- FindSounds – Search the Web for Sounds
- Download Free Sound Effects – via Media College
- BBC’s sound effects library
Gear and Apps
- Field Gear- Good, Better, Best – Transom
- Auphonic
- https://airmedia.org/tools/ask-engineer-which-mic-should-i-use
- Adobe Audition (review/intro from Transom)
- Auphonic. Automatic audio post production web service for podcasts, broadcasters, radio shows, movies, screencasts and more.
Storytelling Podcasts (specific episodes especially helpful)
- Radiotopia
- 99% Invisible
- Criminal
- Ear Hustle
- Everything is Alive
- The Heart
- Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything
- The Truth
- This is Love
- Radio Diaries
- The Kitchen Sisters Present
- The Memory Palace
- Mortified
- Strangers
- RadioLab
- “Colors”
- This American Life
- Last Podcast on the Left
- Caught
- Invisibilia
- Love + Radio
- The Moth Radio Hour
- Serial
- Snap Judgement
- Storycorps
- Studio 360
- The TED Radio Hour
- Trump, Inc.
- Welcome to Night Vale
- Longform
- Dirty John
- The Leviathan Chronicles
- We’re Alive
- The Thrilling Adventure Hour
- Backstory
- Uncivil
- Just Break Up
- Love + Radio
Networking, Skill-Building, Mentoring Sources
- AIR (Association for Independents in Radio)
- Digital Women Leaders- Mentorships
- The Podcast Academy
- Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Third Coast Pocket Conference: Sessions recorded from Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago
Wildcards (To be filed later. Patience, Grasshopper.)
Podcasting 101 Videos https://googlecp.prx.org/podcasting-101
Here’s their lovely Toolbox: https://www.podcastgarage.org/toolbox
Third Coast Pocket Conference: Sessions recorded from Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago